Improvement in cigar-molds



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Maen/f r UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILHELM osENBRcK, ADoLE OSENBRGK, AND AUGUST OSENBRGK, oE BREMEN, GERMANY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIGAR-MOLDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,51 3, dated January 5, 1875; application led November 19, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, WILHELM OSENBRGK, ADoLE OSENRROK, and AUGUST OsEN- BRGK, all of Bremen, in the Empire of Germany, have invented a certain new and Improved Cigar-Mold, of which the following is a specification:

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l represents a longitudinal section, partly inv section, and Fig. 2 a sectional plan or top view, partly in section, of our invention.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The invention relates to certain improvements in cigar-molds, whereby their capacity is increased without a corresponding increase of dimensions, and whereby they are rendered insensible to the eli'ects of moisture and siccity.

The molds are constructed in three parts, namely, a middle part or body, having sockets in its upper and lower surfaces to receive the cigar bunches,77 and a top and bottom part having segments, which are iitted in the sockets in. such a manner that, by bringing the parts together, a double row of bunches can be formed, and at a single operation.

rlhe body of the mold is constructed in sections, which are connected together by crossbands or equivalent means, in such a way that the molds preserve their plane at all temperatures, While, by this construction, they can be furnished at a low cost.

In the drawing, the letterA designates the body ot' a mold constructed according to our invention. B is the top, and C the bottom part. D designates the sections of the body, which are so made and connected together that each takes in one-half of the sockets E formed in the Lipper and lower surfaces of the body. In other words, the divisions of the sections D are equivalent to lines drawn axially through the sockets. The several sections D are fastened or connected together by cross-bands F, which are let into grooves formed in the sides of the body, and the ends of which are turned up or down and secured in place. The top and bottom parts. B C are constructed of boards, to which are affixed the segments G, which are fitted in the sockets E of the body. The sockets and segments are ofthe usual form, and when brought together they present-the shape of a cigar, which shape is imparted to the bunches when they are compressed in the mold.

Our mold has a capacity for forming a donble lrow of bunches at a single operation, in contradistinction to an old mold of like dimensions, by which but a single row can be formed.

Our improved mold is exceedingly strong and durable, and, by reason ofthe uneven expansion and contraction of the sections D, and through the medium of the bands, it is not liable to give Way t0 the action of moisture and siccity or of a change of temperature; and in eitherl case it is intended that the invention is to improve upon that class of cigarmolds in which a series of-molds are employed, eachV of which is made in parts and independent of each other, and connected by rods having screw-nuts, to compress the molds for forining the cigars; but such is not my invention.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, in a cigar-mold, `of the central body A, constructed with sockets E in its upper and lower surfaces; the top and bottom parts B C, each constructed with the segments G, having sockets, and iittiug Within the upper and lower sockets E of the central body A 5 and the cross-bands F, connecting the parts together, substantially in the manner and for the object specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands and seals this l I I V10th day or" October, in the year 1874.

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